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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 5, No. 17, of Exchange Messaging
Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and
Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
- Outlook 2001:Mac
- Irregular appointment recurrences
- SharePoint Portal Server
- Nickname resolution
- Other tech newsletters
Outlook 2001:Mac
A public beta version of the long-awaited Outlook Macintosh
client once code-named "Watson" is now available for download at
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/outlook/outlook_prod.asp.
Not to be confused with Entourage, the new PIM in Office 2001 for
Macintosh, Outlook 2001:Mac works only with Microsoft Exchange
Server and includes no support for POP or IMAP mail accounts. It
offers much greater interoperability with Windows versions of
Outlook and a new user interface -- check out the screenshots we've
posted at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/mac.htm#ol2001.
We'll be adding some tips and tricks for Outlook 2001:Mac to that
page.
We've been watching the discussion in the
microsoft.public.outlook.mac newsgroup and the user comments on the
MacWindows site at
http://www.macwindows.com/exchange2k.html.
So far, the two biggest missing features seem to be Palm
synchronization and the ability to compose HTML messages.
Microsoft product manager David Siroky says they're trying hard
to get sync into the final release, planned for this summer. As for
HTML, it looks like that will rely on the Exchange Server to do the
conversion to and from the rich-text format that Outlook 2001:Mac
uses.
Irregular appointment recurrences
Outlook makes it easy to set up an appointment or event that
occurs every Wednesday or every other month or once a year. But it
doesn't have an obvious way to handle an appointment that occurs at
the same time and place, but on Saturday for two months, then on
Sunday. In some cases, you may be able to deal with such an
irregularly recurring appointment by creating several recurring
appointments -- say, one for the Saturday appointments and other for
the Sunday occurrences. Another approach is to create one
appointment, then hold down the Ctrl key as you drag and drop it on
the new dates. The disadvantage in both those approaches is that, if
the details of the appointment change, you can't modify the original
recurring item and have the changes appear in all the other
instances.
We'd be
interested in hearing whether you've found any better methods to
deal with this situation.
SharePoint Portal Server
The new Microsoft server formerly codenamed "Tahoe" is now
officially SharePoint Portal Server. Tahoe combines portal, search,
Web Storage System and document management capabilities. You can get
more information and a download of Release Candidate 1 from
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/sharepoint/eval.htm.
Nickname resolution
The articles in the last two issues of EMO prompted a message
from one of our friends at Microsoft Product Support Services, who
pointed out that the Nickname field on an Outlook contact is
actually used for automatic address resolution, at least some of the
time. The problem is that this feature works only if Outlook is in
Internet Mail Only mode. It doesn't work for Outlook in
Corporate/Workgroup mode. (If you don't know about the differences
between the two modes, see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/choosingmode.htm.)
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